Much of Arizona’s LGBTQ history is unrecorded, due to our lack of written records from Native American communities pre-colonialism. What we do know about the tribes in the Arizona area from European-American “explorers” indicates that Two-Spirit individuals were common and revered. Gender and sexuality were treated differently than today and often in much more fluid
Amsterdam is one of those places in the world that has been essential to LGBTQ rights progress over the years. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage (2001). A lot of pre-Stonewall LGBTQ rights work was done here, but earlier in Dutch history “sodomites” were hunted and executed at
The UK celebrates LGBT History Month in February, so I went to check it out. Between speaking at three locations in Manchester and Leeds, I got to see so many LGBT history sites and projects. Here are the photos and videos from Quist’s February 2015 England trip. First stop: The village of Wilmslow, outside of
Chicago is an incredible place for queer history studies. I’m hard-pressed to think of a city in the world with more tributes, libraries, and museums dedicated to it. I was in town to speak at the Illinois Institute of Technology on tech’s quistory and I made a whirlwind day of it, visiting three different locations
Of course I have to start this series in San Francisco! How did it get to be a queer mecca? During World War II, thousands of soldiers were processed out of the San Francisco port for being homosexual and many ended up settling there. This was under a flurry of “blue discharges” – neither honorable